City College Manchester / Manchester College of Arts and Technology

OFT closed case: Anticipated merger of City College Manchester and Manchester College of Arts and Technology

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 3 July 2007

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Communications
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 3 July 2007

Affected market: Education

No. ME/3080/07

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the merger of City College Manchester and Manchester College of Arts and Technology does not qualify for investigation under the mergers provisions of the Enterprise Act (the Act), because neither the UK turnover test nor the share of supply test in section 23 of the Act is met. A relevant merger situation has, therefore, not been created.

Published 3 July 2007